Description
The AWS Cloud Engineer will analyze design and architect cloud-based solutions to address our clients needs for software-as-a-service offering. We are looking for sharp disciplined and self-motivated individuals with a passion for utilizing cloud solutions from AWS Cloud Platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop infrastructure solutions to support business functions processes and applications
- Maintain and build infrastructure to standards performing updates and upgrades to environments tools and scripts
- Monitor and manage operational tasks in the SaaS environment
- Monitor and acknowledge alerts and provide root cause analysis
- Participate in periodic on-call duties
- Develop evaluate and make recommendations for alternative infrastructure solutions.
- Support the selection of methodologies frameworks tools and components of infrastructure solutions and lead multifunctional teams in successful application of those methodologies and tools.
- Design and ensure the validity of the architectural solutions
- Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch SolarWinds etc.
- Understanding of CDN methodologies and implementation. IE: Load Balancing and CloudFront
- Be involved in the planning implementation and growth of the cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with product architects and dev team to design recommend and implement scalable services.
- Stay current with new technology options and vendor products.
- Understanding of writing Infrastructure as a code service IE: CloudFormation and/or terraform.
Qualifications
- BS/BA in related field or equivalent experience
- A strong business orientation
- Experience in the software industry deploying software products
- Administer AWS infrastructure including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) SC Identity Access Management (IAM) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Security Groups Auto Scaling and Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Establish federated identity solutions between on-premises and commercial clouds
- Develop and maintain standards for operations of core AWS components
- Provide analytics to leadership related to costs/capacity/administration ability to evaluate options analyze complex problems present possible solutions in a simple easily understood manner.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Must be able to make or recommend quick decisions
- Must be able to absorb new technologies and implement them quickly and thoroughly
- Ability to work well with a cross-functional geographically dispersed team and customer base
- Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
- Must be able to prioritize large lists of tasks effectively
- Maintains monitors and analyzes performance of system components